In our professional and personal lives, we are constantly writing goals to try and motivate ourselves and direct our behavior. Perhaps your goal is to complete a certain amount of work in x-time, perhaps it is to increase profits by so much, or maybe it’s to get...

To-do lists in theory are helpful tools that can make you more productive than you otherwise might be. But while to-do lists are generally intended to help you complete more work, sometimes they can unfortunately end up having the precise opposite effect and make you...

‘Options paralysis’ is a psychological term that describes what happens when we’re given too many choices. A good example might be what happens when you go to the supermarket and have to choose a type of soup. If there’s only one type of soup,...

When trying to demonstrate how best to approach a laundry list of tasks, many productivity gurus will use a demonstration called ‘big rocks first’. It goes a little something like this… To start with, said guru will show you an empty jar and tell you that...